May 21, 2008

Wednesday Walewanders

Dontrelle Willis returns to the D as a reliever. If he continues to pitch the way he has in Spring Training and early in the regular season, his name might very well end up ahead of Damion Easley as the Tigers most expensive contract-as-main-course ever. Rob Neyer’s already weighed in on the move.

Speaking of Mr. [...]

May 8, 2008

Tigers Feeling Buyer’s Remorse?

The other day I sent an instant message to Ian Casselberry asking if, perchance, the Tigers may be feeling some buyer’s remorse regarding the Miguel Cabrera trade.
I admitted to Ian that it’s way early but that doesn’t mean that panic is not setting in everywhere around Comerica Park — but never at Fungo HQ!
So, I’m [...]

November 12, 2007

The Monday Report

My son woke me up at 5:45 this morning so I had some time to catchup on my reading and thinking…

Call me naive, but I thought the Kenny Rogers thing would be a slam dunk, even with The Scott Boras Factor. Now that Rogers, who turned 43 on Saturday, is testing the market — the [...]

August 6, 2007

Tigers’ Offense Returns and So Does The (Abbreviated) Non-Sequiturs

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Never in my life have I ever experienced such a torturous Tigers vs. Devil Rays game as Monday night’s tilt. (Never, that is, since 1998 when the team came into being.) Making things worse, I had to follow the game on Yahoo! Sports GameChannel.After two mind-numbing days of driving from Phoenix to [...]

August 6, 2007

Tigers’ Offense Returns and So Does The (Abbreviated) Non-Sequiturs

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Never in my life have I ever experienced such a torturous Tigers vs. Devil Rays game as Monday night’s tilt. (Never, that is, since 1998 when the team came into being.) Making things worse, I had to follow the game on Yahoo! Sports GameChannel.After two mind-numbing days of driving from Phoenix to [...]

July 19, 2007

Blogging a Thursday Matinee Game

The beauty of being self-employed: watching a Tigers matinee game on my office TV while working away. I don’t do this very often but he are my thoughts updated throughout the game.Jeremy Bonderman clearly has the slider going today.Wow, Timo Perez. As I’ve mentioned before, never in their history have the Tigers had a [...]